CN214627446U - Gesture control lighting device and terminal equipment - Google Patents

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CN214627446U
CN214627446U CN202120275697.9U CN202120275697U CN214627446U CN 214627446 U CN214627446 U CN 214627446U CN 202120275697 U CN202120275697 U CN 202120275697U CN 214627446 U CN214627446 U CN 214627446U
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The application provides a gesture control lighting device, includes: a plurality of non-contact sensors for sensing a non-contact gesture and outputting a sensing signal; the plurality of light sources are connected with the plurality of non-contact sensors in a one-to-one correspondence mode, and the irradiation areas of the plurality of light sources are different; and the control circuit is used for receiving the sensing signals output by the non-contact sensors and controlling the light sources corresponding to the non-contact sensors outputting the sensing signals to be turned on or off according to the sensing signals so as to output illumination light to different areas. A terminal device is also provided.

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Gesture control lighting device and terminal equipment
Technical Field
The application relates to the technical field of electronics, concretely relates to gesture control lighting device and terminal equipment.
Background
In life, in some use scenes, large-area illumination is needed, in other use scenes, large-area illumination is not needed, and only partial position illumination is needed; in the existing lighting device, independent lighting of a certain area cannot be conveniently realized, so that the lighting device is lack of flexibility in use and unnecessary power consumption is increased when large-area lighting is not needed.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In view of the above problems, the present application provides a gesture control lighting device and a terminal device, which can realize flexible switching of lighting areas through intuitive gesture operations, and can also reduce the power consumption of the lighting device.
The application provides a gesture control lighting device, includes: a plurality of non-contact sensors for sensing a non-contact gesture and outputting a sensing signal; the plurality of light sources are connected with the plurality of non-contact sensors in a one-to-one correspondence mode, and the irradiation areas of the plurality of light sources are different; and the control circuit is used for receiving the sensing signals output by the non-contact sensors and controlling the light sources corresponding to the non-contact sensors outputting the sensing signals to be turned on or off according to the sensing signals so as to output illumination light to different areas.
The application also provides a terminal device, which comprises the gesture control lighting device.
In gesture control lighting device and terminal equipment of this application embodiment, a plurality of non-contact sensors can respond to the non-contact gesture and output sensing signal, control circuit can receive each the sensing signal of non-contact sensor output and control correspond the lighting or closing of light source to can light different light sources through the gesture of the non-contact sensor of output correspondence difference, thereby realize to the regional illuminating light of output of difference, and then can adapt to different lighting demands, can also close partial light source when not needing whole light sources to light, reduce the consumption.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.
Fig. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a gesture-controlled lighting device according to a first embodiment of the present disclosure.
Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a gesture-controlled lighting device according to a second embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the operation of turning off the plurality of light sources in FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the operation of turning on several light sources in FIG. 3.
Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device according to a third embodiment of the present application.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical solutions of the present application better understood, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
The terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present application and in the above-described drawings are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular order. Furthermore, the terms "include" and "have," as well as any variations thereof, are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those steps or elements listed, but may alternatively include other steps or elements not listed, or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
It should be noted that, for convenience of description, like reference numerals denote like parts in the embodiments of the present application, and a detailed description of the like parts is omitted in different embodiments for the sake of brevity.
A first embodiment of the present application provides a gesture control lighting device, including: a plurality of non-contact sensors for sensing a non-contact gesture and outputting a sensing signal; the plurality of light sources are connected with the plurality of non-contact sensors in a one-to-one correspondence mode, and the irradiation areas of the plurality of light sources are different; and the control circuit is used for receiving the sensing signals output by the non-contact sensors and controlling the light sources corresponding to the non-contact sensors outputting the sensing signals to be turned on or off according to the sensing signals so as to output illumination light to different areas.
In the gesture control lighting device in this application embodiment, a plurality of non-contact sensors can respond to the non-contact gesture and output sensing signal, control circuit can receive each sensing signal and control that the non-contact sensor output correspond the lighting or closing of light source to can light different light sources through the gesture of the non-contact sensor of output correspondence difference, thereby realize the regional output light to the difference, and then can adapt to different lighting demands, can also when not needing whole light sources to light, close partial light source, reduce the consumption.
Referring to fig. 1, a gesture control illumination apparatus 100 according to a first embodiment of the present disclosure is provided, in which the gesture control illumination apparatus 100 includes a plurality of non-contact sensors 11, a plurality of light sources 12, and a control circuit 13.
In this application, the non-contact sensor 11 is configured to sense a non-contact gesture and output a sensing signal; the plurality of light sources 12 are connected with the plurality of non-contact sensors 11 in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and the irradiation areas of the plurality of light sources 12 are different; the control circuit 13 is configured to receive sensing signals output by the non-contact sensors 11, and control the light sources 12 corresponding to the non-contact sensors 11 outputting the sensing signals to be turned on or off according to the sensing signals, so as to output illumination light to different areas.
It is to be understood that the different regions may refer to different ranges, different locations, different boundaries, etc.; it may be a plurality of spaced apart regions, or a plurality of adjacent regions, or a plurality of contiguous and partially overlapping regions, or a plurality of overlapping but differently sized regions; and the like, as long as they do not completely overlap, are within the scope of the different regions referred to herein.
The non-contact sensor 11 is used to realize indirect non-contact detection gestures, for example, when a hand of a user is shielded within a preset distance above the non-contact sensor 11, a change in a sensing value of the sensor can be caused, and a sensing signal is output.
In some embodiments, the non-contact sensor 11 is a distance sensor for sensing a change in a sensed distance value of the sensor caused by the obstruction and outputting a sensing signal; the distance sensor may be, for example, an ultrasonic distance sensor, an optical distance sensor, a laser distance sensor, or the like.
In some embodiments, each of the light sources 12 may include one LED lamp bead, and a plurality of the LED lamp beads may be arranged in parallel; the control circuit 13 can be used for receiving a sensing signal sent by one or more non-contact sensors 11 and controlling the turning on or off of one, several adjacent or several random LED lamp beads.
In other embodiments, each of the light sources 12 may also include a plurality of LED lamp beads, the plurality of LED lamp beads are connected in series, and a plurality of strings of LED lamp beads are arranged in parallel; the control circuit can be used for receiving a sensing signal sent by one or more non-contact sensors 11 and controlling the on or off of one string, several adjacent strings or several random strings of the LED lamp beads.
In this application, the light emitting colors of the light sources 12 may be the same, so that when one or more of the light sources 12 are turned off or when a plurality of the light sources 12 are simultaneously turned on, the light emitting color of the whole gesture control lighting device 100 does not change; that is, the light output of the gesture control lighting device 100 is made consistent; preferably, the plurality of light sources 12 are white light lamps; this comparison is suitable for life lighting.
Of course, it can be understood that the light emitting colors of the light sources 12 may be different, so that when the different light sources 12 are controlled to be turned on, not only light can be output to different areas, but also light with different colors can be output to different areas; the setting can be specifically carried out according to the requirement; this comparison is suitable for ambience lighting.
In this application, the light-emitting brightness of the light sources 12 may be the same, so that when the light sources 12 are simultaneously turned on, the light-emitting brightness of each light-emitting area of the gesture control lighting device 100 is relatively uniform, and when one or more of the light sources 12 are turned on, the light-emitting brightness of the corresponding light-emitting area of the gesture control lighting device 100 is also not changed basically, or the brightness of a local area during local light-emitting is basically the same as the brightness of the local area during all the light sources 12 are turned on; that is, the light output of the gesture control lighting device 100 is made consistent.
Of course, it can be understood that the light-emitting brightness of the light sources 12 may also be different, so that when the different light sources 12 are controlled to be turned on, not only light may be output to different areas, but also light with different brightness may be output to different areas; specifically, the gesture control lighting device 100 may be set as required, for example, when the gesture control lighting device is a bedside reading lamp, the brightness of the light source 12 in the center position may be set to be higher, and the brightness of the light source 12 in the edge position may be set to be lower, so that the brightness of the reading area is higher, and the brightness of other areas is lower.
In some embodiments, the control circuit 13 is further configured to determine whether the light source 12 corresponding to the non-contact sensor outputting the sensing signal is turned on after receiving the sensing signal output by each non-contact sensor 11, and if so, control the light source 12 to be turned off, and if not, control the light source 12 to be turned on.
In some embodiments, the sensing signal output by each of the non-contact sensors 11 is an analog signal; the gesture control lighting device 100 further includes a gesture control circuit 14, the plurality of non-contact sensors 11 are electrically connected to the gesture control circuit 14, and the gesture control circuit 14 is configured to convert analog signals sensed by the plurality of non-contact sensors 11 into digital signals and output the digital signals to the control circuit 13.
In some embodiments, the gesture-controlled lighting device 100 further includes a switch 15, the control circuit 13 is configured to receive the digital signal transmitted by the gesture control circuit 14 and process the digital signal to output a control signal to the switch 15, and the switch 15 controls the lighting or turning off of the plurality of light sources 12 according to the control signal.
The gesture control lighting device 100 of the present application may be used as a lighting component in a terminal device, may be used as a stand-alone day lighting device, may be used as an effect atmosphere lighting device, and the like.
Referring to fig. 2, a second embodiment of the present application takes the gesture-controlled lighting device as a gesture-controlled desktop desk lamp 200 as an example, and further describes an application of the gesture-controlled lighting device of the present application.
When the gesture-controlled illumination device is the gesture-controlled desktop type desk lamp 200, the control circuit 13 is configured to control, according to the sensing signal, the light source 12 corresponding to the non-contact sensor 11 that outputs the sensing signal to be turned on or off, so as to output illumination light to different areas of the desktop; the gesture control desktop type desk lamp 200 can swiftly realize the switching of desk lamp illumination area according to the illumination needs.
In some embodiments, the gesture control desktop desk lamp 200 further includes a lamp housing 21, a connecting rod 22 and a base 22, wherein the connecting rod 22 connects the lamp housing 21 and the base 22; the plurality of non-contact sensors 11, the plurality of light sources 12 and the control circuit 13 are all accommodated in the lamp housing 21, wherein the plurality of non-contact sensors 11 are arranged on one side of the lamp housing 21 away from the base 22, so that the non-contact sensors 11 can sense gestures on one side of the lamp housing 21 away from the base 22 and output sensing signals; the control circuit 13, the gesture control circuit 14, the switch 15, and the like are disposed in the base 22.
Of course, in other embodiments, the plurality of non-contact sensors 11 may be disposed at other positions, such as the side of the lamp housing 21, the connecting rod 22 or the base 22, or not limited thereto; the control circuit 13, the gesture control circuit 14, the switch 15, and the like may be provided in other positions.
In some embodiments, each of the non-contact sensors 11 is disposed opposite to the corresponding light source 12, and the control circuit 13 is configured to control the light source 12 opposite to the non-contact sensor 11 outputting the sensing signal to be turned on or off according to the sensing signal.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 2, a plurality of the non-contact sensors 11 and a plurality of the light sources 12 are distributed along a predetermined extending direction, so as to output illumination light to different areas of the desktop along the predetermined extending direction; the preset extending direction can be parallel to or inclined with the desktop.
In other embodiments, the plurality of non-contact sensors 11 and the plurality of light sources 12 may have other distributions, which is not limited to the above.
The gesture-controlled desktop desk lamp 200 may also be provided with a mechanical button to control the on/off of the light source 12, which is not described herein again.
In an embodiment, referring to fig. 2, for example, the number of the non-contact sensors 11 and the number of the light sources 12 are four, the four non-contact sensors 11 are sequentially named as sensor a, sensor B, sensor C and sensor D, and the four light sources 12 are sequentially named as light source a, light source B, light source C and light source D; the four non-contact sensors 11 are arranged in a shape of a straight line, the four light sources 12 are also arranged in a shape of a straight line, the four non-contact sensors 11 and the four light sources 12 are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and each non-contact sensor 11 is located above the corresponding light source 12; the four non-contact sensors 11 are all distance sensors.
The following description will be made by taking this embodiment as an example to control the illumination of the desktop desk lamp by gesture:
in the embodiment, the light sources (the light source A to the light source D) controlled by the corresponding sensors are turned on or off by sliding the corresponding distance sensors (the sensors A to the sensors D) above the desk lamp through gestures, so that the lighting requirements of the required area are met; specifically, for example, as shown in fig. 2, when four light sources of the desk lamp are all turned on (the dotted line is a light emitting area), if the light source B and the light source C need to be turned off, for example, a computer is turned on to work, and the computer display itself has light, that is, the desk lamp does not need to be too bright, as shown in fig. 3, a hand may be placed above one or more sensors of the lampshade 22, in this embodiment, taking the sensor B and the sensor C as an example, to trigger a switch to turn off the light source B and the light source C below the corresponding sensors, and placing the hand above the sensor B and the sensor C of the lampshade 22 may be, for example, to pass the hand from the sensor B to the sensor C of the lampshade 22; if the B lamp and the C lamp need to be lighted again, for example, the computer is turned off and the user needs to read or write, the user only needs to move the hand over the B sensor and the C sensor again as shown in fig. 4; wherein, this action can be performed in a reciprocating manner, and is not described herein again.
It should be noted that the parts that are not mentioned in this embodiment can refer to the description of the first embodiment, and are not described herein again.
As shown in fig. 5, the third embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal device 300, where the gesture control illumination apparatus 100 is an illumination module in the terminal device 300.
In some embodiments, the gesture control illumination apparatus 100 may be accommodated in a housing of the terminal device, a plurality of light emitting holes 31 corresponding to the light sources 12 may be disposed on the housing, and light of each light source 12 may respectively emit from the corresponding light emitting hole 31; the gesture control lighting device 100 may be, for example, a built-in flashlight of a terminal device, and a user may control the light emitting position of the gesture control lighting device 100 through a gesture, so as to conveniently control a light emitting irradiation area; the gesture control lighting device 100 may also be used for a built-in mood light of a terminal device, the light source 12 may be colored, and a user may control the light emitting position of the gesture control lighting device 100 through a gesture, so as to conveniently control the light emitting irradiation area and/or the light emitting color.
In some embodiments, the gesture control illumination apparatus 100 may be accommodated in a battery rear cover of the terminal device 300, for example, wherein the battery rear cover may be provided with light emitting holes corresponding to the plurality of light sources 12 to guide light of the plurality of light sources 12.
In some embodiments, the terminal device 300 is a portable, mobile computing device, wearable device, etc., such as a smartphone, laptop, tablet, gaming device, etc.
Reference herein to "an embodiment" or "an implementation" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the application. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. It is explicitly and implicitly understood by one skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein can be combined with other embodiments.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical solutions of the present application and not for limiting, and although the present application is described in detail with reference to the above preferred embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that modifications or equivalent substitutions may be made to the technical solutions of the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the present application.

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1. A gesture-controlled lighting device, comprising:
a plurality of non-contact sensors for sensing a non-contact gesture and outputting a sensing signal;
the plurality of light sources are connected with the plurality of non-contact sensors in a one-to-one correspondence mode, and the irradiation areas of the plurality of light sources are different; and
and the control circuit is used for receiving the sensing signals output by the non-contact sensors and controlling the light sources corresponding to the non-contact sensors outputting the sensing signals to be turned on or off according to the sensing signals so as to output illumination light to different areas.
2. The gesture controlled lighting device of claim 1, wherein the non-contact sensor is a distance sensor for sensing a change in a sensed distance value of the sensor caused by an obstruction and outputting a sensing signal.
3. The gesture controlled lighting device of claim 2, wherein the non-contact sensor is one of an ultrasonic distance sensor, an optical distance sensor, or a laser distance sensor.
4. The gesture-controlled lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the control circuit is further configured to determine whether a light source corresponding to the non-contact sensor outputting the sensing signal is turned on after receiving the sensing signal output by each non-contact sensor, and if so, control the light source to be turned off, and if not, control the light source to be turned on.
5. The gesture-controlled lighting device of claim 1, wherein each of said light sources comprises an LED light bead, a plurality of said LED light beads being connected in parallel; the control circuit is used for receiving induction signals sent by one or more non-contact sensors and controlling one, several adjacent or several random LED lamp beads to be turned on or off.
6. The gesture-controlled lighting device of claim 1, wherein each of said light sources comprises a plurality of LED light beads, said plurality of LED light beads being connected in series, a plurality of strings of said LED light beads being connected in parallel; the control circuit is used for receiving induction signals sent by one or more non-contact sensors and controlling the LED lamp beads of one string, adjacent strings or random strings to be turned on or turned off.
7. The gesture-controlled lighting device of claim 1, further comprising gesture control circuitry, a plurality of the non-contact sensors each electrically connected to the gesture control circuitry, the gesture control circuitry configured to convert analog signals sensed by the plurality of non-contact sensors into digital signals.
8. The gesture-controlled lighting device according to claim 7, further comprising a switch, wherein the control circuit is configured to receive the digital signal transmitted by the gesture control circuit and process the digital signal to output a control signal to the switch, and the switch controls the plurality of light sources to be turned on or off according to the control signal.
9. The gesture-controlled lighting device of claim 1, wherein the gesture-controlled lighting device is a gesture-controlled desktop desk lamp; the control circuit is used for controlling the light source corresponding to the non-contact sensor which outputs the sensing signal to be turned on or off according to the sensing signal so as to output illumination light to different areas of the desktop.
10. The gesture-controlled lighting device according to claim 9, wherein the gesture-controlled desktop desk lamp further comprises a lamp housing and a lamp cover, the plurality of non-contact sensors, the plurality of light sources and the control circuit are all accommodated in the lamp housing, and the lamp cover is covered above the lamp housing; the non-contact sensors face the lampshade, and are used for sensing gestures of one side, far away from the lamp shell, of the lampshade and outputting sensing signals.
11. The gesture-controlled lighting device according to claim 10, wherein each of the non-contact sensors is disposed opposite to the corresponding light source, and the control circuit is configured to control the light source opposite to the non-contact sensor outputting the sensing signal to be turned on or off according to the sensing signal.
12. The gesture-controlled lighting device according to claim 9, wherein the plurality of non-contact sensors and the plurality of light sources are distributed along a predetermined extending direction, so as to output lighting light to different areas of the desktop along the predetermined extending direction.
13. The gesture-controlled lighting device of claim 12, wherein the predetermined extending direction is parallel to or inclined from the desktop.
14. A terminal device characterized in that it comprises a gesture-controlled lighting arrangement according to any one of claims 1 to 13.
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